Antenna Doesnt Make Since?

[michiganscanman]

Hi, I run a BCD996T as my base scanner. Ive had nothing but problems trying to get a antenna that would recive digital! Iam down in a valley and surounded by hills around me Ive tried the Radio Shack 800 mhz antenna, The GRE 800 mhz antenna and the metal radio shack loaded antenna. And all I get is part of the coversations. Now if your ready. Now for the weird part! I found an old rubber duck antenna I kept that came with a new scanner that only recived up to 512mhz. I put it on my BCD996T and now Iam reciving digital like you weouldnt believe!! Now how do you figure that one? Weird huh ha ha. Is there any other type of antenna out there for indoor use that might even work better for me? Iam in a rental complex. And they wont let you put anything up or attached to the building here. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[pinetree]

See my post here for my solution
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79777

 

[michiganscanman]

See my post here for my solution
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79777[/Q Thanks Dave for that information. But Iam still green to all this scanner stuff. How did you tie all those antennas together to go to one radio? Do you recive digital with that type of solution? Or does those antennas go to diffrenet scanners? Ive done about everything I could think of to recive better digital. Ive used Radio Shach 800 mhz anteena,Gre 800 mhz antenna and the Radio Shack all metal with the load 1300 mhz antenna. And no go!! Then I put on just a old cheap rubber ducky 512 mhz antenna. And now I recive digital. Not much to speak of. But at lease I hear something. There must be a ton of RF in our apartment here. I can walk by my scanner while Iam reciving something. A the minute I walk pass my scanner it loses the signal. Sure make me sad to have such a expensive scanner for digital and cant hear anything. Lost for words in Michigan. Bill

 

[pinetree]

The workman KS3 is a 800 plus others. It makes no difference as to digital or analog. The metal strip that the base of the antenna holds to (its a mag mount) forms a ground plane action and improves reception. Each of the antennas feeds a separate scanner.

 

[michiganscanman]

The workman KS3 is a 800 plus others. It makes no difference as to digital or analog. The metal strip that the base of the antenna holds to (its a mag mount) forms a ground plane action and improves reception. Each of the antennas feeds a separate scanner. Oh! Ok I see now how it works. Well thanks so much for all the help. Its really hard to get much reception here in our complex. I would have been so much smarter if we had took an apartment on the third floor. All that extra higth would have helped me get out better. Oh well! Iam stuck now. But thanks alot for all you help. 73s Bill